“We cannot win this war we’re in as long as we keep handing our children over to the enemy to educate,” said Moore, after explaining that he had home-schooled his son.

He continued thus: “It cannot be fixed, the socialistic model, and we need to abandon that. As conservatives and Christians, if you think you’re going to win this war you’re in, and leave your children in those schools, it will not happen.”

Moore has also written about his opposition to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the new education benchmarks adopted in more than 40 states, including South Carolina. The purpose of the CCSS are to promote increased rigor in schools, and to make sure students around the country are being held to the same standards.

At the end of his April 12 speech, Moore used Hillary Clinton as an example to demonstrate the dangers of public school. He compared her to a janissary, which was a soldier for the Ottoman Empire. According to Moore, janissaries had been Christian children who were captured by the Ottomans and trained to fight against other Christians.

“Hillary Clinton, who may be the next president, God forbid, was raised in a conservative, Republican family. ... There’s an example of a janissary,” said Moore. “And we are turning many of our own children over to this system.”

GOP Candidate Says Christians Must Pull Their Kids Out Of 'Godless' Public Schools

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Spring Garden School No. 1 -- Closed In The Late 1980s

According to Katrina Ohstrom's blog, the<a href="http://ohstromphoto.wordpress.com/2013/06/14/spring-garden-school-no1/" target="_blank"> Spring Garden School No. 1</a> was built in 1928 and closed in the late 1980s. In 2009 it was bought by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, although the future of the building is unclear.